unsmooth

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ smooth.

Adjective

unsmooth (not comparable)

1. Not smooth; rough.
   • G. Fletcher

     How may weak mortal ever hope to file
     His unsmooth tongue, and his deprostrate style?

   • 2009 March 5, Kohsuke Inomata et al., “High-resolution multi-dimensional NMR spectroscopy of proteins in human cells”, in Nature, volume 458, number 7234, →DOI:

     In contrast, treatment with the uncleavable Alexa-labelled Ub-3A-G75A/G76A–CPP Tat resulted in an unsmooth and heterogeneous pattern of fluorescence in the cells, with intense staining of cytoplasmic components and nucleoli.

Antonyms

• smooth

Verb

unsmooth (third-person singular simple present unsmooths, present participle unsmoothing, simple past and past participle unsmoothed)

1. (transitive) To make no longer smooth; to roughen or furrow.
   • 1882, W. Marshall, Strange Chapman, volume 2, page 170:

     Her face gathers, furrows, glooms; arching eyebrows wrinkle into horizontals, and a tinge of bitterness unsmooths the cheek and robs the lip of sweetened grace. She is evidently perturbed.